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LiDAR map of Cannock Chase
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 27 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Cannock Chase lies between about 128 m and 209 m above sea level; its highest point is about 238 m.
Cannock Chase on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Cannock Chase, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Cannock Chase. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Cannock Chase. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 27 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cannock Chase with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey (27 features in this area) and the 43 recorded places in this area, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Staffordshire, England
- Area
- 15.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 128–209 m above sea level; highest 238 m
- ONS code
- E43000130
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Luke
- Council House
- Congregational Chapel
- Cannock Mill
- Manse Immediately
- Crystal Fountain Public House
- Former Walhouse National School
Other recorded places
- Designer Outlet West MidlandsWikidata place
- Cannock Chase HospitalWikidata place
- Cannock railway stationWikidata place
- Prospect VillageWikidata place
- RawnsleyWikidata place
- ChadsmoorWikidata place
- HazelsladeWikidata place
- LittleworthWikidata place
- Cannock War MemorialWikidata place
- FIELDAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- TRAMWAYAerial survey feature
- COAL MINING SITEAerial survey feature
- COAL MINING SITEAerial survey feature
- COAL MINING SITEAerial survey feature
- COAL MINING SITEAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Pillaton Hall4.2 km north-west
- Castle Ring6.6 km east
- Essex Bridge11.6 km north
Neighbouring parishes
- Great Wyrley
- Cheslyn Hay
- Burntwood
- Longdon
- Saredon
- Hatherton
- Norton Canes
- Bridgtown
- Heath Hayes and Wimblebury
- Cannock Wood
- Hednesford
- Huntington
- Brindley Heath
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.